Nothing is impossible to research. Are you talking about an employees intention to 'leave' a workplace. Yes, their intentions can be studied and based on neccesary factors contributing to them wanting to leave.

Cossette, M., & Gosselin, A. Quitter, rester ou progresser ? Trois profils d’intentions des agents de centre d’appels [Leave, stay or progress? Three intention profiles of call center agents]. Industrial Relations 2012, 67, 4, 703-725.

Turnover intentions are recognized the strongest predictor of actual turnover:

Cohen, A. (1999). Turnover among professionals: A longitudinal study of American lawyers. Human Resource Management, 38 (1), 61–76. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-050X(199921)38:13.0.CO;2-E.

Dupré, K. E., & Day, A. L. (2007). The effects of supportive management and job quality on the turnover intentions and health of military personnel. Human Resource Management, 46 (2), 185–201. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.20156.

Employee intent to stay or leave can be surveyed. I recommend reading the following article:

- David Gibson and Joseph Petrosko (2014) Trust in leader and its effect on job satisfaction and intent to leave in a healthcare setting, New Horizons in Adult Education & Human Resource Development 26 (3), 3-19.

Mahfuz Judeh Thank you for sugesstion . can you pls share the article pdf as my library doesn't have access to it?

Studying employee turnover intentions is not complicated at all. Employee turnover intentions have been studied for long and there is always scope to better the existing findings. Studying employee turnover intentions is not novel in itself; to make a significant contribution to existing literature, you may study turnover intentions in some new type of organization (sector wise), work arrangement (remote work), or for worker personality type. For instance, in the current scenario, it will be worthwhile to study turnover intentions among employees who are working permanently from homes. Every research topic is easy, once you have sorted how to go about it. All the best for your research.

Yes, Tariq Jamal, I have considered the aspect which you have mentioned for my study already, but still, the novelty question has raised by the member..eg: employee motivation is already been studied in this context ..how it is novel?

Si se puede, hay muchos elementos objetivos y subjetivos que pueden analizarse para predecir una posible conducta, lo que si hay que tener claro es que se trata de una predicción pero sin dudas una herramienta útil para las empresas y sus líderes. Te sugiero una metodología cualitativa donde luego de la exploración pueda encontrar las correlaciones entre factores que se relacionan con la intención de rotación. Pueden explorarse las expectativas que tienen en su puesto, sus metas a corto y largo plazo y si pueden ser cumplidas desde su lugar actual, las necesidades de superación, la satisfacción laboral, la productividad, las condiciones laborales, la motivación, la relaciones con sus superiores, entre otros.

Better do not waste time, if you are a PhD candidate. Very old topic and almost no theoratical contributions could be claimed in the end. Yes if you are working for a company as an HR manager and facing this problem.